Roberto Fabelo is a Cuban painter, illustrator, sculptor, and creator of assemblages and installations. His work, Caldosa I is a large, black metal pot with engraved images made in 2015. The cylinder-like object resembles a large stockpot used on a stovetop. This example is one of many the artist collected from old institutions and restaurants, later recycled for artistic use. It measures twenty inches tall and roughly eighteen inches in diameter. Fabelo is known to draw with eerie precision on all kinds of objects and surfaces. His characteristic hybrid creatures float between the real and the imagined, treasure and trash, human and animal, angel and demon. The pot is painted matte black, with engravings carved into the black metal surface, exposing the bright metal underneath in sharp, short cuttings. Some of the drawings include a nude female body with wings. Another being has a bird’s beak for a head. Next to the bird-headed figure is a silver looking mermaid with a rustic, roman-like helmet. A short, naked man looks at the buttocks of a nude woman to his left. He has hooves for feet and horns on his head. Fabelo’s drawings on his pots recall nightmarish ghouls, or bizarre fairy tale creatures that both attract and repel. There are some general patterns in the etchings that encircle the pot. The women are shown as classical nymphs, mermaids, and angels. They are embellished with seashell helmets, tails, wings, or fish spines. The men by contrast are part human and part insect.